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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 767

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 767
Transliteration
l ʿlf bn s¹wm <<>> bn ms¹r
Translation
By ʿlf son of S¹wm <<>> son of Ms¹r

Interpretation

Commentary
There is a rectangular shape next to the first m which might have been a b with a n joined to the arms which the author abandoned in order to write the inscription in a different direction. The last three letters are joined.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Special Letter Forms
ʿ a dot
Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 760-766, 768-772

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0021395
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